“It was the tobacco companies, under pressure from the government over smoking, that bought the food industry. So it’s a similar playbook, except now they know to burn the internal memos saying: ‘We know this food is unhealthy.’”
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FDA guidance for specific sodium reduction goals for the food industry is groundbreaking.
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it’s clear that agriculture’s environmental impacts need to shrink in order to protect the natural environment.
Faced with cold weather and reduced foot traffic, Burlington’s restaurants are scaling back hours and services, whether they’re open for indoor dining or not. For workers, that means fewer tips, dwindling hours, and the looming threat of layoffs.
Col. Ambrose McGuckian, the author's step-grandfather, developed the "water bath cooking" technique which is very similar to what we now know as sous vide.
In an era when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) are increasingly compromised, and workers in the American food industry are often poorly paid and under-protected, advocates and commentators must consciously work to dismantle the elitism that so often surrounds cultural discussions about food in the United States.
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